Microsoft® Windows® XP Networking and Security Inside Out: Also Covers Windows 2000

Chapter 6. Preventing Data Loss

Determining Your Backup Needs 181

Organizing Your Data 183

Designing a Backup Solution 188

Using the Windows Backup Program 195

Using Other Data Loss Prevention Tools Included with Windows 179

Protecting Backups 208

Recovering Data 209

Most of this book is concerned with keeping the bad guys at bay—viruses, Trojan horses, malicious hackers, spammers, password crackers, and other misfits who want to get into your computer. But a discussion of computer security is incomplete if it doesn't address the all-important issue of backing up your data.

Most computer experts agree that the three most important security safeguards are "backup, backup, and backup." A good backup provides a final safety net if an intruder or a virus ...